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The Red-headed Green-Ftnch. 
T "’HiS is of the Number of very beautiful Birds; it is here figur’d’ 
of the bignefs of Life : I take it rather to be of the thick and 
hard-bill’d Kind, than of flender-bill’d Birdsj who live moftly on Infects; 
yet the Bill is not fo big in Proportion as in molt fmall Birds, call’d Hard- 
bill’d Birds ; but many American Birds differ fo much in little Circum- 
Itances, that one cannot eafily conclude what European Birds to range 
them with : The Bill is of a light brownifh or Horn-colour ; its Shape is 
very well exprefs’d in the Figure; the Head is of a red Colour, not bright 
Scarlet, but fomething dull, and' inclining to a high-colour’d Orange; 
round the Neck is a yellow Ring, which points upwards a little under the 
Bill; the Neck, Back, Wings and Tail, are of a fine Parrot-green ; the 
greater Quills towards their Pips, are dusky ; on the upper Part of the 
Wing near the Joint or Bend, is a roundilh yellow Spot, near half an 
Inch in Breadth ; the Breaft and Belly, as low as the Thighs, are of a 
pleafant light blue Colour ; the upper Part of the Thighs, lower Belly, 
and under the Tail, are Green; part of the Thighs next the Legs are 
Yellow ; the Legs, Feet, and Claws, of a light brown Colour. 
This Bird is in the Duke of Richmonds Cabinet ; it came from Suri^ 
-nam. Where- my Subje£fs have been Birds out of Spirits, or otherwile 
preferv’d, I have made no mention of the Colour of their Eyes, not 
knowing v/hat Colour they have been of ; though a Brother Author that 
has lately publifhed fome hundreds of Birds, vvas not pleafcd to dofo, for he 
has given Irides of very beautiful and fhining Colours, both in 
tion and Colouring, to many Birds which he never faw alive, or nswl^' 
dead; or any Perfon who could inform him. Mr. Dandridge m-More~ 
/fr/^/r is pofiefs’d of many of the Birds, from which his Defeiptions were - 
taken, who has told me, that he himlelf never knew what Colour the 
Eyes of thefe Birds were of, fo could not pretend 'to tell it to an- 
other. I cannot find that the above-defcrib’d Bird has been before taken, 
notice of by any one. 
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